Gifts & Donations

If you are interested in making a donation to the Barnard Library, please read the policy outlined below. We thank you for your consideration.

Gifts of Financial Support

To donate financial support, please contact library@barnard.edu and Barnard Development at development@barnard.edu.

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Gifts of Physical Materials

We usually do not accept gifts of materials; this is because of our collection specialization, our role as an undergraduate library, and our emphasis on materials in current use for students. If you would like to enquire, please gather the titles and publication years of materials you would like to donate and send those, depending on donation material, to:

• Books or media for the general circulating collection: the subject specialist librarian for the areas your collection covers
• Textbooks or anthologies for the Barnard FLI Partnership Library: barnard-fli-partner-lib@barnard.edu
• Zines: zines@barnard.edu
• Archival materials within our collecting areas: archives@barnard.edu

If your materials are not in need at Barnard Library, please consider the following resources:

• Books Only:
  • Donating Books to Prison Libraries
    • Books Through Bars NYC: Contact info@booksthroughbarsnyc.org or use the contact form
  • Columbia University Libraries: Contact: giftsinkind@library.columbia.edu
  • New York Public Library: Contact gifts@nypl.org
• Books & AV Media:
  • Interference Archive: histories of social movements
  • Lesbian Herstory Archive: materials produced by lesbians